D-day looms for floundering Lendlease Speculation on potential candidates has included two former Lendlease employees – former Mirvac chair John Mulcahy ... “Execution will be key to win investors’ trust and attain a sustained rerating,” ... 05/21/2024 - 10:42 pm | View Link
Major pension fund tells Tesla investors: vote against Musk’s $55B pay package Several pension funds and investment groups signed a letter asking Tesla investors to vote against Musk's pay package and two Tesla directors ... 05/21/2024 - 6:02 pm | View Link
Sainsbury’s teams up with Microsoft to enhance customer experience using AI Sainsbury's and Microsoft have announced a five-year strategic partnership to accelerate the retailer's Next Level strategy using Microsoft's AI and ML. 05/20/2024 - 9:56 pm | View Link
Who’s going to win the return-to-office battle? The genie’s out of the bottle and some employees won’t return willingly to the office. But many employers still prefer employees working on-site. 05/20/2024 - 10:39 am | View Link
Alabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election, Vow to Fight On A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings, captive ... 05/19/2024 - 1:50 am | View Link
A lawsuit weaponizes environmental law in opposition of new urban housing.
Los Angeles-based grocer Erewhon has a reputation for health, wellness, and sustainability, selling high-end organic produce and celeb-favorite smoothies. By supporting organic and regenerative farms, and cutting down on plastic, the company claims it showcases its belief in “protecting the health of our precious planet.”
Sorry athletes. It’s hard to compete with a well-tailored medical professional.
While brands like Nike plan to dominate the Olympics with blinding new shoes on the track, Figs wants to own the sidelines through sleek medical scrubs. The medical apparel brand company just debuted a new line of red, white, and blue uniforms that Team USA doctors will wear in Paris—and in a dramatic, slow-mo walk scene, our medical professionals will finally get the full hero treatment.
Would you trust an on-device AI to listen to your calls to stop scams in progress or to record all of your computing activity so you never forget any of it?
Google and Microsoft have spent the last few weeks unspooling enormous ambitions for artificial intelligence, but their smallest-scale showings of this technology—what they call on-device AI, but which you can also think of as offline or cloud-free AI—look the most interesting.
Solutions to big problems will come from breaking down disciplinary boundaries.
A colleague once lamented about a controversy in their academic department (computer science) involving a potential new hire. The candidate in question was formally trained in physics but had a strong record studying information theory, which was of interest to the department.
Both chains began selling Beyond Meat in 2019, but now have either scaled back significantly or stopped selling it entirely.
When Del Taco began serving Beyond Meat in 2019, it was the first major Mexican fast-food chain in the country to serve a plant-based beef taco option. (It also called the offering the “future of tacos.”) The company was early when it came to all restaurant chains adopting Beyond Meat, along with brands like Dunkin’, which served a plant-based sausage, and Carl’s Jr., which offered the company’s plant-based beef burger.
Enlarge / A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Tesla fans—and CEO Elon Musk himself—are excited about the prospects for Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) software. Tesla released a major upgrade—version 12.3—of the software in March. Then, last month, Musk announced that Tesla would unveil a purpose-built robotaxi on August 8.